My favorite Japanese CMs

(@_@) Wow.  I’m not even an AKB48 fan but watching this CM made me blush.  I don’t even really know what the CM is trying to advertise (some sort of card i guess, but who’d pay attention to that while seeing what’s being shown on the CM).  Hell, she even says in the making of the CM that the way she has to take off her dress is pretty embarrassing.

You can see the other CM where she’s in a yukata here.

Enjoy your summer everyone because it seems like Itano Tomomi is (^_-)*

Well here’s another example of the mini-movie CM.  They won’t show these types of CMs on air since it’s obviously too long (5 minutes!), but they usually have a 15-sec or 30-sec one.  My guess is that they’ll break this long CM into a few 15-sec or 30-sec CMs to create a bunch of CMs that can go on air.

In the CM itself, Kitakawa Keiko goes back to her hometown of Kobe in Hyogo-ken.  Feeling nostalgic, she simultaneously promotes Sony’s new digital camera the new α (it is a commercial lol).  As for the song, JUJU covers a MY LITTLE LOVER song 「Hello, Again 〜昔からある場所〜」(mukashi kara aru basho).  This CM is also a prime example of the formula (catchy song w/ beautiful girl).

Here’s a news report about the new Coca-Cola Zero CM featuring a Hip-Hop dancing Namie Amuro.  The CM actually starts broadcasting from today, February 11th.  She talks about it having been a while since she last portrayed herself as “cool”.  Some facts about the CM reported were that she repeated the routine more than fifty times and it took a total of ten hours to finish the shooting.  That’s a lot of hard work for a thirty second commercial.  Also, the song in the CM is Namie Amuro’s new single WILD. You can hear more of the song on the Coca-Cola Zero website.  And just like the title of the song, Amuro does some really intense dancing.

You can see a much clearer version of the CM at the Coca-Cola Zero website here.  You can also see the making of the CM on this page too.  It’s the the third video in the panel on the left.  It’s also eight and a half minutes long (^_^;)

I personally like this CM since it features some really cool dance moves being a Hip-Hop dancer myself.  Also, this CM is just another example of following the formula.